Posted on: September 14, 2020 12:30 PM

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The fed override coronavirus screening in US local airports

Starting today, the US government will stop to conduct coronavirus screening of international travelers arriving here. This is from CDC, ?We now have a better understanding of COVID-19 transmission that indicates symptom-based screening has limited effectiveness because people with COVID-19 may have no symptoms or fever at the time of screening, or only mild symptoms. Therefore, CDC is shifting its strategy and prioritizing other public health measures to reduce the risk of travel-related disease transmission."

The screenings in question have taken place across 15 select airports?including New York's John F. Kennedy, Los Angeles International, and Atlanta?since January, and have included temperature checks and health questionnaires (which gather contact information for tracing) administered by government officials to incoming international travelers. These efforts have coincided with a routing of all flights from "high-risk" countries, like China, Iran, and much of Europe, into these airports, which will also end at 12:01 a.m. on Monday. The CDC says they will shift their focus to "more effective mitigation efforts that focus on the individual passenger," including health education, illness response at airports, voluntary electronic data collection, potential testing, enhanced training for transportation employees, and more.